Oregon Ballet Theatre (OBT) proudly announces the appointment of Maestro Enrique Carreón-Robledo as its new Music Director. Carreón-Robledo will officially begin his tenure with the 2025/2026 season and will lead the OBT Orchestra for two beloved productions, George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker® and Christopher Stowell’s The Sleeping Beauty.
Photo by Jessie Kenney, provided by Tulsa Ballet
“Enrique is the perfect fit for OBT. He embodies the artistic quality we strive for in everything we do. The care and compassionate approach to his work with others resonates with our organizational values,” said Dani Rowe, Artistic Director.
Mo. Enrique Carreón-Robledo made his Oregon Ballet Theatre debut conducting the OBT Orchestra for La Sylphide in February of 2023, and subsequently returned the following season for performances of Swan Lake.
As a Music Director he has equally excelled in Opera, Ballet, and the Concert Hall, he is renowned for his engaging performances and fervent connection with instrumentalists, singers, and ballet ensembles. As an opera conductor he has been described by the specialized press as “something of a crazy Zen calligrapher, a fireball of energy guiding the orchestra and singers through every emotion of the score”. Equally praised for his ballet conducting the French press called his… “music making transporting, in perfect symbiosis with the dance on the stage, what else could you ask for!!!”.
A sought-after guest conductor, he has performed with, among many others, the Stuttgart Ballet, Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse, Ballet Nice Mediteranée, the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, the National Opera of Hong Kong, Tacoma Opera, Charlottesville Opera, the American Ballet Theatre, the New York City Ballet, West Australian Ballet, and the National Symphony and Ballet SODRE in Uruguay.
He has served as Resident Conductor for Tulsa Ballet for the past four seasons conducting three new productions, four revivals, and the critically acclaimed world premiere of Kenneth Tindall’s Alice in Wonderland with a commissioned score by Alexandra Hardwood, BAFTA Cymru Award-winning composer of “All creatures Great and Small” fame.
Named one of the 43 most fascinating people in Houston in 2013 by the Houston Chronicle, Maestro Carreón-Robledo is a 2013 Master Mind Award Winner (Houston Press), a 2013 “Best Artistic Director” and 2012 “Most improved company” Houston Theatre Award Winner (Houston Press), and a 2006 Crystal Globe Award Nominee (French Press). He served as General and Artistic Director of OPERA San Antonio from 2016 to 2018, and in previous years as Artistic Director of Opera in the Heights for four seasons to be followed by a Visiting Professorship as Director of Orchestras at Oklahoma State University.
An innate pedagogue and academic, he has performed and taught in prestigious institutions like the University of Texas at Austin, the National Conservatory of Mexico, the University of London Symphony Orchestra, and the University of Sonora. He has taught and mentored young people of all ages across many settings, from the elementary school classroom to post-graduate and one-on-one specialized instruction.
He started formal studies in Mexico. He attended the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. He continued undergraduate studies in Composition and Music Theory at California State University-Northridge, and earned a Master of Music degree in Opera Production from the University of Mississippi. He completed doctoral studies with specialties in Opera Conducting and Stage Directing at The University of Texas at Austin, obtaining the unanimous highest grade for his Doctoral Comprehensive Exams.
